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Tux@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun

www.theverge.com

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Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun

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Tux@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Time to switch to uBlock Lite or another ad blocker.
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    “Time to switch to uBlock Lite or another ad blocker”

    No. Time to switch to Firefox or derivative such as Librewolf.

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      Lynx

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      Brave is actually very good and seems to have a great blocker

      ps. their mobile browser has also been great on older phones

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        No. Brave has a history of modifying links you click on to add affiliate information. The only time to use Brave is if user agent spoofing for “chrome only” websites doesn’t make it work.

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          ps. i also first started using Brave when certain streaming sites refused to work in Firefox :)

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            Try this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/

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              thanks, but it’s a performance/timing/codec issue on an older laptop as the same sites work fine on a much higher spec machine

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          they appear to have stopped that 4 years ago and apologized for the mistake

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            Right, but I don’t trust them as a result and I don’t feel comfortable recommending them or not pointing it out. Meddling with links you click is malware behavior.

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              they have not acted as malware since correcting this mistake

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